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Friday, August 5, 2011

Another DIY Smash Book

I have fallen in love with these! If you go to our Creative Gallery site, I have done some stuff with these make-it-yourself smash books already. The idea came from a challenge on the Counterfeit Kit Blog. But while I was walking around in Craft Warehouse, I got another idea for a book. This will make three of them that I have made.

I got the clipboard from Craft Warehouse for $1! I thought it would make a cool cover. I used up a bunch of ephemera that I have collected from Tim Holtz, and a line called Nostalgiques and Life's Journey that used to be sold at Michaels. I wanted it to appear to be a "working" clipboard, something that was actually in use with important papers and even a picture of a loved one in the upper left corner. the binding idea came from Mouse Potato Designs. It is explained on her video, go check it out!

I filled it with random papers, envelopes, etc. I even had music paper from high school that I threw in here.

Also some 7 Gypsies ephemera here.

The sheet of wood is from a cigar box that a friend gave me, it was meant to go between the drawer layers in the box, I thought it would make the coolest page.

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